A Computational Network Model for Shared Mental Models in Hospital Operation Rooms

Abstract

This paper describes a network model for mental processes making use of shared mental models (SMM) of team performance. The paper illustrates the value of adequate SMM's for safe and efficient team performance. The addressed application context is that of a medical team performing a tracheal intubation executed by a nurse and a medical specialist. Simulations of successful and unsuccessful team performance have been performed, some of which are presented. The paper discusses potential further elaborations for future research as well as implications for other domains of team performance.

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“…A less flexible precursor of the second-order adaptive network model introduced in the current paper was described in [21]. The latter network model only addressed parts (not including memory states) of the base level.…”

“…To achieve this, the two levels of self-models for first-order and second-order adaptation are new in the current model; this enabled modelling the positive and negative effects of metaplasticity as described in [10] in the form of learning and forgetting parts of a mental model. In addition, also the use of memory states to be able to redo a failed attempt in a history-context-sensitive manner is new, providing a mechanism for only redoing the actions that are needed and skipping the ones that are not needed again as can be observed naturally in practice; the precursor model from [21] is much more rigid and lacks also this type of flexibility.…”

A Second-Order Adaptive Network Model for Organizational Learning and Usage of Mental Models for a Team of Match Officials

“…To model mental models, their adaptation, and the control of this adaptation, the three-level cognitive architecture, as shown in Fig. 1, can be used (Treur and Van Ments 2022;Van Ments and Treur 2021; see also (Van Ments et al 2021a, 2021b:…”